Live from Midwest Gaming Classic, it's Retronauts Micro

Several times a year, Bob and I descend upon some unexpecting city and talk for an hour about old video games. Last month, our unwitting target was Milwaukee, where we spoke at Midwest Gaming Classic. This year, we decided to focus on Splatterhouse — and not by coincidence. Not one but two world-class Splatterhouse players attend MGC each year: Caitlin Oliver and Kevin Bunch, both of whom have competed for (and repeatedly held) the official high-score records for Splatterhouse in the arcade and on TurboGrafx-16, respectively. You don't get much more "expert" than that without going directly to the developers.

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Given that this is a live recording, of course, the audio quality is pretty noisy. But there's some great info about the games in here, so it's definitely worth your time.

Episode description: Live from a very noisy Milwaukee stage, Jeremy and Bob are joined by Splatterhouse experts and world record holders Caitlin Oliver and Kevin Bunch to contemplate the complete history of Namco's gross-out brawler franchise.